Will there be an ESE!character in Book 7?

[sistermagpie]

No: HPFGUIDX 147563

> -Nora says that maybe it's a little like the end of 
Gotterdammerung.  
> I mean, you totally know everyone's going to die, but it's still 
BANG-
> y when Hagen spears Siegfried in the back

Magpie:

There is also Hitchcock's definition of suspense vs. surprise: if 
the characters are talking about something a bomb goes off, that's a 
surprise. If you know there's a bomb under the table and the 
characters don't, no matter what the characters are talking about 
that's suspense.

Setting Snape up the way he is definitely creates suspense.  I feel 
like throughout the book JKR is throwing out evidence on both 
sides.  We've got these signs that Harry interprets as Snape being a 
DE, we see Snape himself claim to be a DE.  Then we've got 
Dumbledore who seems to know everything that's going on and claims 
to have a reason for trusting Snape completely (and Dumbledore is 
all-knowing etc.)  Then we've got wildcards like the conversation 
with Hagrid etc.

So I do think that it could go either way, and that works for it.  
And the AK is a huge deal as an action either way.  Really I'm more 
against discounting any piece of evidence yet.  Like, just as we 
shouldn't, imo, start looking for ways Snape wasn't really a DE or 
that wasn't really an AK, nor should be brush aside hints that 
there's more info to come about his work for DD.

-m